I watched the video and got excited too. Petabits of on-chip non-volatile storage? that also can do logic? That's more than a game changer.
But it seems that HP's memristor claims are controversial within the research community: http://vixra.org/abs/1205.0004 http://www.slideshare.net/blaisemouttet/mythical-memristor Some of the dispute is about priority, which may not matter so much; I care less about *whom* I get massive on-chip non-volatile storage from than that I get it at all. But that too appears to be under dispute (e.g. "Myth #3" in the second link above). I would love to hear more from people who know about this. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David Barbour <dmbarb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Shawn. Real memristors could > seriously change the programming landscape, and have much potential for > directly embedding dataflow programming models and neural networks. > > I think object dispatch and imperative C programs won't be the most > effective use. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Shawn Morel <shawnmo...@me.com> wrote: > >> Just watched a very interesting talk on memristors: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY&feature=related >> >> I hadn't bothered going into very much detail so far - for some reason, I >> thought memristors would end up being primarily used as memory elements >> that supplant the traditional sram, dram, HDD hierarchy. That on its own is >> kind of cool and would probably help shift us away from files and more >> towards long-lived objects. >> >> The talk, however, describes ways that memristors can be organized to be >> an arbitrary combination of switching, memory, logic or even analog >> emulations of synaptic behaviour. The talk touches briefly on compiling >> from C down to logic gates (Russell's material implication). Some key >> aspects is that, as opposed to FPGAs the "reprogramming" can take place in >> a very short time and they addressing capabilities of a HW associative >> memory are quite large. >> >> For example, it could take a few nanoseconds to create HW N-way >> associative lookup - that's to say, I could on the fly configure a piece of >> HW to actually represent object message dispatch! >> >> shawn >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> > > > > -- > bringing s-words to a pen fight > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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